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On Tuesday 17 July 2007 00:46:08 maxim wexler wrote: |
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> So, emerge portage results in one package being |
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> installed, portage, 61kb. |
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> |
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> emerge -u portage lines up 5 or 6 packages plus |
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> portage, 18Mb. |
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> Went ahead and just did the one package, figuring |
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> later I could do an emerge -u for the rest of it. |
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> But this is what happens: |
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> heathen@localhost ~ $ emerge -pv portage |
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> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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> Calculating dependencies... done! |
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> [ebuild R ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.9 USE="-build |
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> -doc -epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB |
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> |
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> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 |
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> kB |
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> What I expected. |
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> heathen@localhost ~ $ emerge -puv portage |
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> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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> Calculating dependencies... done! |
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> |
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> Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB |
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> So why doesn't it list the upgrade part now? |
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Because --update stops calculating deps when none of the specified targets |
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need updating. Only --deep checks the consistency of all dependencies even |
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when none of the targets need updating. You could argue it's a deficiency in |
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portage (although well-known).. |
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Bo Andresen |
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